BDHA 2ND ARROW

 "The Buddha was a very earnest teacher. He saw there was a real problem in life, the suffering — everybody’s suffering.

There’s one point where he says he had a vision of the world before his awakening. It was of a puddle drying up, and there were fish in the puddle, lots of fish in the puddle, and they were struggling with one another to get what little bit of water was left in the puddle. But the water was going to dry out, dry out, dry out, and here they were struggling with one another. It gave rise to a real sense of dismay.

But then he realized that the problem wasn’t out there. The problem was in here. He said it was an arrow buried in the heart. Once that arrow could be removed, then there would be no more suffering. The arrow was clinging, craving — all the factors that give rise to suffering. And it takes a full-blown effort to pull that arrow out. It’s not something you do lightly, in your spare time. It’s got to take top priority in your life.

Even after his awakening, the Buddha said he saw the world as being on fire. He’d been experiencing the bliss of release for seven weeks and then came back to consider the world. He saw all the beings of the world on fire with the fevers of passion, aversion, and delusion. The goal of his teaching was to help people put those fires out.

It’s an image that recurs again and again in his teaching. He says you want to practice as if your head or your turban were on fire. In other words, you don’t wait around. You can’t say, “I’ll do it when it’s convenient,” or, “I’ll do it when I’m in the mood.” The fact is that your head is on fire right now and it’s burning right now. So you’ve got to do what you can to put it out right now. That’s the kind of teaching the Buddha gave. That’s the kind of teacher he was. He was very earnest in everything he said."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "In Earnest"

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NDM 

There can never be any 'experience' as such of the Absolute for the simple reason that there cannot possibly be anything objective about the Absolute, which is essentially pure subjectivity. It is the inner self-consciousness which is the experiencing medium for all experience. The Absolute provides the potentiality for the experience; the self provides the actuality

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BAILEY 

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